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by gph 10y ago
I get what your saying, but I wouldn't consider something to be working if it requires more energy in than it produces. It's not like people are questioning whether we could ever produce a fusion reaction. We're questioning w
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by gph 10y ago
Still makes them spend money which will get spread into the local economy. Might not be as much as the 10k, but it will still be something. Hopefully enough to offset any potential gains investors think they'll make by holding onto the
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by gph 10y ago
Yea, but those folks won't change their behavior. If anything they will probably be more encouraged to do more. I think what OP is getting at is that Tesla isn't aiming for just that demographic. Musk has always wanted to produce
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by gph 10y ago
>And Facebook is already seen as political; that ship has sailed. I don't think that's true. Certainly the extremes on each side will say that. But I think everyone in the middle doesn't. I don't. Certainly not in the
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by gph 10y ago
First of all your use of biased language is ridiculous, you are as bad as the 'alt-right white-nationalish thug media' and I wish people like you had no place in rational discussions. Second if you tell them to "Fuck off&quot
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by gph 10y ago
But most the houses are already built. I live in a house that was built in the 30s. So in my mind the resource cost has already been sunk into homes across the country. Instead a lot of folks are moving into new developments being built in
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by gph 10y ago
Perhaps, but I still think the fact that so many polls had Clinton's chances of winning well above 90% is indicative of some incorrect assumptions within their models. Especially considering how they were off in nearly every single swi
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by gph 10y ago
It might honestly come down to whether he wants to be elected to a second term. If he does he'll have to keep riding this populist wave somehow, and it'll either be through actual policy changes or somehow continuing to bullshit t
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by gph 10y ago
Sure, but I guess my point was that systematically we aren't building solar panels and creating the greatest possible efficiency of the overall system. You're kind of describing an ideal efficient system where we coordinated toget
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by gph 10y ago
Yea I understand that Trump is volatile and has talked about repealing Trade pacts, but he's still a billionaire republican that economically came of age in 1980s NYC. You'd think Wall Street would love him from that description.
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by gph 10y ago
Guess I was thinking more of my situation than the OP's in Seattle. I can commute downtown Baltimore in about 30 mins (~8 miles) from my suburban house. Leaf does it on a single charge. Guess I would have to do the math, but I'd t
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by gph 10y ago
>Fundamentally this was an election about identity. Nate Cohn said it best in a tweet last night when he pointed out that working class whites (and not their minority compatriots who share the same economic problems) I'm not sold on
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by gph 10y ago
And that's why their candidate lost. Doubt Trump will do much better by normal folks, but it was obvious Clinton wouldn't.
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by gph 10y ago
That's not really doublespeak. And it doesn't have to be less efficient to own a house. Can't put solar panels on my apartment roof. Can't plant much of a garden to localize some of my consumption. If you were really eco
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by gph 10y ago
It should have. And it would have if he belonged to the party that contains a majority portion of anti-war/pacifist types. Can't sell out the major beliefs of your base and expect them to show up at the polls.
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by gph 10y ago
I agree, but it always rubs me the wrong way when rationality is assumed to be seated in the brain and ALWAYS correct/sane as opposed to emotion which is still viewed as some external force which crops up within ourselves and can'
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by gph 10y ago
If you travel to some rural areas in the Midwest you'll see that the economy has not been improving for everyone recently. Most of their wages have stagnated while the price of most goods/services has risen. And there isn't m
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by gph 10y ago
>rights like being allowed to carry a gun in public which is vigorously defended by large parts of the population. Just FYI that's actually different depending on local laws. I don't live in an open carry state so I very much d
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by gph 10y ago
The check and balance is that he has to get all those people to agree with him. Certainly on major issues where he aligns with Republican philosophy that might happen. But he's not a dictator that can do as he will tomorrow. If he deci
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by gph 10y ago
But I think that's the difference in this election. Lower class people weren't voting Republican, they were voting for Trump. Trump was an outsider. It's hard to say lower class people are voting against their own interests w
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by gph 10y ago
I think we knew even before this that everyone is somewhat racist, and I mean everyone. This isn't just a white people thing. Most people harbor what might be considered racist sentiments. How we should handle this moving forward is an
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by gph 10y ago
>You've been duped. True, but you could say that about nearly every politician that's been elected recently. At some point you have to vote for the person you agree with and just hope they will hold up at least some part of wha
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by gph 10y ago
I disagree. American culture is still very much there, it just doesn't exist within the corporate/commercial realm. I think something people always seem to overlook is that there never really was a singular American culture. The d
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by gph 10y ago
Read the article. Says quite clearly the monument will be on display for 100 days, then they will dismantle it and hand the books out to the public. Exactly as she did in 1983 in Argentina.
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by gph 10y ago
Well you could say there's an intelligence (Social/emotional/IQ) barrier to making lots of money. Those with the growth mindset will say that there's nothing innate about intelligence and it's pure effort, but I&#x2
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by gph 10y ago
Ah, I guess I was assuming round-trip. Article mentioned 3 years as the likely shortest round-trip. I suppose if we are talking about a one-way death trip then yea. Maybe some people will do that initially, but long-term you'd have to
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by gph 10y ago
A lot of those millions of peers actually play support roles so that the speedsters like you can make it to the egg (especially before any rival mates sperm makes it there). Just thought I'd point that out given how there are some para
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by gph 10y ago
No we don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Te...
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by gph 10y ago
>why do terrorists and the like even bother with (seemingly much harder to obtain, though admittedly flashier) chemical and nuclear weapons? What terrorists are you talking about? Seems to me like 99% of terrorists use regular weapons I.
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by gph 10y ago
Ok... but were certain bonobos more likely to be non-discriminatory than other bonobos based on genetics? Yea there's tons of studies talking about bonobos sexuality. I did a google search and nothing about a specific set of genes caus

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